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Palace of the Peacocks (Curley Large Print Books)

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Temple Lane went to Lumbaya a small island in the Java Seas, to marry Nick Hallam. When she got there she found not only was her man with another woman Lua, but he was very close to losing his job.
Nick got Temple to forgive him & she when to his boss, she got Nick another chance, but Nick got caught with Lua again, this time she was locked in his arms.
Temple went straight to the hotel she had been staying at & packed, she tried to get a steamer off the island, but the only bunk was in a cabin of another man.
Temple desperate dressed as a boy & got the bunk.
Her bunk mate was Ryk van Helden.
Temple soon found herself in trouble when she got sea sick. She was taken back to her cabin by Ryk who being no fool knew she was a girl.
He continued to pretend she was boy, but he gave her lots of opportunities to confess she was a girl.
During a very bad storm Ryk finds his he was right she is a girl, for sure because he has to change her cloths.
When they ended up on his island; Bayanura, she was the only white girl there, Ryk decided they should marry.
Ryk was missing an eye & Temple used this to keep Ryk from finding out she loves him. She says so many mean things to him, but it is because of what Nick did to her & she thinks Ryk is doing the same thing with Mei.
But a girl Mei who felt she had the right to his name. Mei started to do mean things to Temple, but it soon slipped in to more & more dangerous things until Mei came close to doing real harm to Temple.
Ryk finally saw what was going on & he got rid of Mei.
Then he & Temple lived happily ever after.

From back cover:
Temple Lane had gone out to Java Seas to marry her fiance, but all her plans fell through when she found someone else had taken her place. In her desperate endeavours to get away from the situation, she met the Dutchman Ryk van Helden and promptly found she had jumped out of the frying pan into the fire! It was difficult enough being the only white girl for miles around-but the greater problem was how to cope with what she soon recognised as the devastating attraction of her new employer.